Longlisted for the Giller Prize,
Finalist for the Rogers/Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize
Among the National Post‘s 50 Best Books of 2015
One of Quill & Quire’s Books of the Year, 2015
In the stories of Confidence, there are ecstasy-taking PhD students, financial traders desperate for husbands, violent and unremovable tenants, aggressive raccoons, seedy massage parlors, experimental filmmakers who record every second of their day, and wives who blog insults directed at their husbands. There are cheating husbands. There are private clubs, crowded restaurants, psychiatric wards. Everyone has a secret of some kind.
“Smith, a long-time Globe and Mail columnist, is a gifted anthropologist of the urbane. Those gifts are on full display throughout Confidence.”—The Globe and Mail
“When I pick up a book by Russell Smith I’ve come to expect to read about sex, and ambition, and a city that can be exciting and superficial, and glitters with the promise that it doesn’t always deliver. There is all that in his new collection of short stories.” —Shelagh Rogers, CBC Radio One’s The Next Chapter